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have, also, iron axes and knives, in the place of 

 those which were made of stone and of bone. 



Friday, September 1. Fowls begin to leave 

 the north, to go to the southward. 



Friday, October 6. As the weather begins to 

 be cold, we have taken our vegetables out of the 

 ground, which we find to have been very produc- 

 tive. 



Saturday, 7. Mr. A. R. M c Leod and company, 

 passed this place, to-day, in three canoes, which 

 are on their way to the Rocky Mountain Portage, 

 and thence to New Caledonia. This gentleman 

 delivered me letters, not only from different per- 

 sons in this country, but also from my relatives be- 

 low. To be informed, in this way, of the health 

 and prosperity of the latter, to attend to the effu- 

 sions of their hearts, and a detail of many of the 

 circumstances of their lives, transports me in im- 

 agination, for a short season, into the midst of 

 their society, and communicates a pleasure resem- 

 bling that of personal intercourse. Excellent in- 

 vention of letters ! thus to enable us to keep up 

 a kind of conversation with beloved friends, while 

 separated from them by thousands of miles. 



Sunday, February 25, 1810. On the evening 

 of the 15th inst. my woman was delivered of two 

 living boys. They appear, however, to have 

 been prematurely born ; and, from the first, little 



